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What is it all about?

MARKETING SAVVY

Here’s your choice – market or die.

Savvy marketing turns an unnecessary bottle of water into a $6 status symbol. Savvy marketing turns a computer brand into a way of life. Savvy marketing turns longshot candidates into US Presidents. What could it do for you?

Marketing is about ensuring that your brand stands for something; that you have a point of difference. Marketing is about knowing your audiences intimately and holding the skills to appeal to them via methods as diverse as advertising, media coverage, social media and public speaking.

But most of all marketing is about making people do something. That something might be to buy a product we can see or to have people buy into a school of thought. Regardless – it’s marketing that makes that something happen.

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Trainer

BRETT DE HOEDT

Trainer Brett de Hoedt was a journalist, broadcaster and publicist for 3AK, Truth, New Idea, Sunday Age, 3MP, and the Seven Network before establishing marketing and communications agency Hootville Communications in 1999.

His first client was Paralympian swimmer Priya Cooper who scored a wave of media attention in the Sydney 2000 frenzy. No brief was ever again so simple.

600 clients later Brett has worked with WWF, Australian Conservation Foundation, CommBank, Yooralla, City of Melbourne, Netball Australia, Australian Red Cross, YMCA, Leading Age Services Australia, Australian Swim Team, Berry Street, Vicsport and Oxfam. He also works with tiny volunteer run organisations and local governments.

Brett doesn’t help promote perfumes and Spring Racing Carnival marquees but he has helped create marketing campaigns on issues including climate change, euthanasia, breastfeeding, police shooting of people with mental illness, sexual slavery, TAFE education, funding of age services and more.

Brett’s marketing advice has created over 1000 media hits, placed mobile billboards outside the electorate offices of our politicians, seen national campaigns demand greater funds for nursing homes, screened national television commercials and clients speak to Parliaments.

Unlike some marketers, Brett shamelessly recommends whatever marketing option works, whether that be hitting social media or hitting the local High Street on a Saturday morning.

Brett is a hell of a trainer – energetic, challenging, practical. His reviews speak for themselves.

Brett’s presentation skills saw him selected to keynote about using media and other marketing options to press for climate action at Al Gore’s Climate Reality Training Corp event in 2014. Over 500 people from a dozen countries attended. Several scored media coverage as a result of Brett’s presentation on the same day. If he’s good enough for Al Gore perhaps he can teach you something too.

Being a successful small business operator means Brett has lots of proven marketing advice for small businesses.

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BONUSES

Unlimited follow-up coaching

We help you put our great marketing advice into action with a period of follow-up coaching: 4, 26 or 52 weeks. Book a place in our workshop and you'll be able to contact Brett and access his advice, feedback and suggestions.

Notes

Comprehensive notes outshine any Stieg Larsson novel.

1 to 1 follow-up sessions

Our 26 and 52 week options come with 1 to 1 follow-up sessions.

Guarantee

Our Marketing Savvy workshop gets results. So if you invest yourself in our workshop, notes and follow-up coaching but don’t improve your marketing game we will hand you back your money. What other consultant or trainer offers that?

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VENUE HOTEL LINDRUM

Bookings

SECURE YOUR PLACE TODAY

Choose from three options:

Marketing Savvy 10

$1200

$1200 including GST

Pre-workshop preparation, workshop, notes and 10 weeks unlimited follow-up coaching. Delectable all day catering, endless Nespresso and a drink in the famous bar on us afterwards.

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL

Be one of the first THREE people to book a place and we'll DOUBLE your follow-up coaching.

TRAIN THE TEAM

Hundreds of organisations across Australia book private workshops with Brett. A private session allows you more time to tackle your specific issues. If you have more than a couple of people who could benefit from any of our workshops consider a private saession. You’ll secure an excellent per-person discount, dramatic improvements to all staff and the beginning cultural shift.

Brett trains groups of all sizes and persuasions across Australia. He has trained CEOs, board members, professional athletes, scientists, young people with intellectual disabilities, people with mental illness, priests, sex workers, people for whom English is a second or third language, asylum seekers and celebrities. He can probably handle you and your needs.